Dallas Police Department launches new community information service

by PegNews wire

The City of Dallas is launching a new Community Information Service designed to deliver important and timely information to residents in our area using the latest technology.

This service, created by Nixle, LLC delivers trustworthy and important neighborhood-level public safety and community event notifications by web, email, and cell phone. Nixle is completely free, simple, and trusted.

Residents of Dallas can now take advantage of Nixle. Sign up at www.nixle.com to register or click on the Nixle link on DPD’s homepage, www.dallaspolice.net.

Nixle is a new community information service provider built exclusively to provide secure and reliable communications. Its authenticated service connects municipal agencies and community organizations to residents in real time, delivering information to geographically targeted consumers over their cell phones (via text messages), through emails and through Web access. Nixle is offered at no cost to all governments, their agencies and organizations, nongovernmental organizations and consumers.

“Using social networking services such as Nixle help us keep our city informed and also serves as a crime fighting tool,” states Lt. Andy Harvey

For now, Dallas residents will be able to receive police-related information via Nixle. Channels providing other kinds of information are expected to be introduced in the future.

Craig Mitnick, the founder and CEO of Nixle, said Nixle differs from current services such as Facebook, MySpace, and Twitter, which provide unauthenticated platforms for connections. Nixle solves that problem by providing a single standardized service for consumers to receive immediate and credible neighborhood-level public safety and community information.

“Nixle is a first-of-its-kind tool for communities that need to provide critical information to their residents,” said Mitnick. “When it comes to public safety information, you have to trust the source. Residents of Dallas can rest easy that the local messages they receive are authentic.”

Source: Dallas Police Department